Tony chats with Oscar Martinez, Founder of Velos, they are an AI-powered automation platform. They help operations teams automate manual processes using AI assistance with a strong focus on insurance and healthcare.

Oscar Martinez: https://www.linkedin.com/in/o-am/
Velos: https://tryvelos.com/

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Tony chats with Ryan Smith, President & Principal Consultant at RLS Consulting, they help agents to sort through all of the complexities around cyber security to find easier ways to protect themselves and their clients. They can also train producers to learn how to talk about cyber to help clients understand their exposure.

Ryan Smith: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-smith-392b6636/

RLS Consulting: https://rlsconsulting.co/

Tony chats with Mitch McCloskey, Co-Founder and CEO at Agency Go, they help agencies outsource personal lines quoting to the Philipines, for both new business and renewals. You could wake up every morning with 5 bindable quotes for every renewal waiting for you and saving your staff hours to actually grow the business!

Mitch McClowskey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitch-m-5217903/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/SbBbzAifHwE

Tony chats with MJ Martinez, Author of "Welcome to Insuriland". MJ took his experience in claims and his passion for the insurance industry and has started a series of children's books to help kids understand insurance. A great Christmas gift for the kids in your life!

MJ Martinez: https://www.linkedin.com/in/macedonio-j-martinez-iii-a644221ab/

Welcome to Insuriland: https://welcometoinsuriland.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/tC5dMNikBGM

Tony chats with Roberto Salinas, Head of Business Development at LULA, they developed a tool called GAIL (Generative AI by LULA). Their conversational AI is meant to give time back to agents. Up to 60% of the time agents spend on the phone is spent on billing related questions that can be handled directly by GAIL. Overall, GAIL can take over all of those repetitive customer-facing tasks and give back time to the agents to focus on growing the book of business. GAIL can handle voice and text conversations.

Roberto Salinas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roberto-a-salinas/
GAIL: https://www.meetgail.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/EBRGWZZq5HM

Tony chats with Christy Barsalaou, President & CEO at QuickFacts, a Canadian insurtech that aggregates all of the personal lines insurance underwriting information onto one platform. You get all the rules for all your markets at a glance.

Christy Barsalou: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christy-barsalou-silvestri/
QuickFacts: https://www.quickfactsinc.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/2hAHTSiGDSo

Tony chats with Zach Gleason, Founder at Atlanta Sales, they help independent agents and brokers coaching, training, and managing sales people. They now have their own proprietary software sales management system specifically tuned to help insurance producers get organized with their sales efforts.

Zach Gleason: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zacharygleason/
Atlante Sales: https://atlantesales.com/

Tony chats with Craig Foster, CEO, and Jim Strickland, GM North America at Ondo Insurtech. They are creating a world leader in claims prevention technology for home insurer, specifically water prevention. Their Leakbot detects leaks, and their network of local plumbers go out to fix the leaks before they become a large claim, all paid for by your insurer! The ROI of prevention is so good that it makes sense for the insurer to pay for the plumber.

Craig Foster: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fosterc/
Jim Foster: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimstrickland2/
Ondo Insurtech: https://www.ondoplc.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/BRsrT2BMuG4

Tony chats with Nick Kidd, CEO & Co-Founder at Quotey, a Canadian insurtech commercial insurance quoting marketplace for agents and brokers. From the single question about what they do, Quotey walks the broker through the correct application and finds coverage from multiple carriers. Quotey was built by a broker for brokers to fix the frustrations he had with the insurance market.

Nick Kidd: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-kidd-4513547/
Quotey: https://quotey.io/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/Weu9DwHQUIU

Tony chats with Robin Roberson, Co-Founder and CEO at Agentech. They create digital agents specifically trained on tasks related to claims handling. It's like each claims handler having hundreds of assistants to help them go through the data, summarizing it quickly, and allowing the claims professional to make better decisions.

Robin Roberson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinroberson/
Agentech: https://www.agentech.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/DTgH4uaDmQY